He was born 600 years before Christ. He began to prophesy in the 15th year. He prophesied to King Jehoiakim that he would be buried like a donkey, and to King Jeconiah that he and his family would be taken to Babylon where they would die. He walked through the city with a yoke on his neck, prophesying Babylonian captivity. He wrote to the Jews in Babylon that they should not hope to return, because they would remain there for 70 years. In the Valley of Totef, where the Jews sacrificed their children to idols, he broke a sound pot, prophesying the imminent fall of the Judean kingdom. With the Levites, he removed the ark from Solomon's temple to the hill of Nebat, and the fire into a well. He prophesied to the Egyptians the destruction of idols and the arrival of the Virgin with the Infant in Egypt. There the Jews stoned him to death. His relics were transferred to Alexandria.

Venerable Martyr Akakios the Shoemaker. Venerable Paphnutius of Bor.